Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri inaugurates India Vitality Week 2025 

Union Minister of Petroleum and Pure Fuel Hardeep Singh Puri with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Minister of Petroleum and VP Delcy Rodriguez, OPEC Secretary Normal Haitham Al Ghais, and First Deputy Minister of Vitality of the Russian Federation Pavel Sorokin at India Vitality Week 2025, in New Delhi on Tuesday
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Union Minister for Petroleum and Pure Fuel H.E. Hardeep Singh Puri stated India was planning to extend the utilization of liquified pure gasoline (LNG) from 6% to fifteen%, for which long-term agreements have been signed with Qatar.

Mr. Puri was inaugurating the third version of the India Vitality Week 2025 on the Yashobhoomi Conference Centre in New Delhi on Tuesday (February 11, 2025). Stating that India was not dealing with any vitality deficit, he stated as a part of adopting clear vitality, the nation was putting in large LNG storage infrastructure and growing the manufacturing of bio fuels to assist obtain 20% utilization of inexperienced vitality. The bio gas adoption is deliberate to be achieved by way of the supply of incentives and subsidies for electrolysers, he added. 

The Union Minister identified that as a part of having a diversified portfolio of vitality necessities for long-term functions, 500 million tonnes of biofuel feedstock will probably be used, together with the scaling of hydrogen vitality to realize 5 million metric tonnes by 2030. Underneath this hydrogen challenge, $96 billion was pumped into hydrogen investments, and for LNG, $30 billion, in refining and petrochemical growth.

India has achieved 100% electrification and has made a mark in offering entry to scrub cooking within the nation by way of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), Mr. Puri stated.

After collaborating in a session on ‘Shaping the brand new world vitality order and commerce map’, he launched the open acreage licensing coverage X, through which 25 blocks measuring 1,91,986 sq. km have been recognized for hydrocarbon exploration and licensing coverage within the nation.